Searching for Leadership in the Philippines’ Pandemic Response

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: COVID-19; responsibilization; militarization of health care; neoliberalism and health; Philippines; Southeast Asia; Health Policy; Military and Veterans Studies; Public Health; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/109; https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/04/08/searching-for-leadership-in-the-philippines-pandemic-response/
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article dissects the pathologies of the Philippines' COVID-19 response; highlighting the centrality of responsibilization; militarization; and neoliberalism in the way the Duterte administration has handled this unprecedented public health crisis. Far from a definite success; the Philippines' pandemic response has disproportionately affected marginalized populations--and in this sense; bears certain similarities to the responses of ostensibly more accomplished Southeast Asian countries.